Nana Alexandria

Inducted 2024 1949 -

Georgia

Biography

Nana Alexandria of Georgia is a two-time women’s World vice-champion who drew her World Championship match with Maya Chiburdanidze in 1981. Alexandria won the European Countries’ Champions’ Cup in 1970 and became the only 3-time women’s champion of the Soviet Union (1966,1968, and 1969) before her 21st birthday. She won 12 gold medals in the Women’s Chess Olympiad, where she was a member of six Soviet teams (1969, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 1986) that won the Women’s Chess Olympiads and later served as the captain of the gold-medal-winning Georgian Women’s Olympiad teams in 1992, 1994, and 1996. For 16 years (1986-2002,) Alexandria was the Chairperson of the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess and served as the Chairperson of the GMA Women’s Council (1989-1991).